February 2012
rinnyssance-deactivated20121024 asked: Still not working :(
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We're Back! →
UPDATE: not back
You Rach You Lose: Call for Submissions! →
thebookstheygaveme:
I’m so very excited to announce that The Books They Gave Me, the book, will be published by Free Press in early 2013! The book will collect some of the very best stories from the blog, along with many, many more. If you’ve been waiting until the right time to contribute,…
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Oh, oh, the internets
Due to some technical difficulties, our site has been down for a great portion of the day.
In the meantime, here’s a great slideshow of rare and unusual vintage images from a private collection. It was produced while your Tumblrer was over at this site.
It’s pretty amazing. I suggest you take a look.
January 2012
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100 best first lines from novels →
1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
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This Is What A Scientist Looks Like →
scipsy:
A project developed by Allie Wilkinson to challenge the stereotypical perception of a scientist. (via @JeanneGarb)
best thing we’ve seen all day
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To My Old Master →
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he...
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Why We Chicken Out at the Last Minute →
Researchers say people may wrongly predict their behavior in embarrassing situations because of an “empathy gap” with their future selves.
Dinosaur Bones: What ancient proteins can tell us... →
Remember in Jurassic Park when they got dinosaur DNA from an ancient mosquito’s stomach? Well, if they had been interested in dinosaur proteins, they only had to look at a dinosaur bone. Dinosaur bones are at least 65 million years old. And all of the meat has turned to stone. Over this amount of time and with this much abuse, scientists thought no DNA or proteins could survive. They were...
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Fran Drescher: I was abducted by aliens and they... →
“You know, it’s funny because Peter (Fran’s ex-husband) and I both saw [aliens] before we knew each other, doing the same thing, driving on the road with our dads.”
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“She did the Secretary of State job, she was a G, she held it down, she didn’t...”
– Ice-T, on why Hillary Clinton will be the first female president
—The best part about this story is that the Huffington Post decided to explain to us what a “G” is. In case you didn’t know — it’s “the hip-hop term for gangster (a positive thing)”.
(via newsweek)
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“The cyclist Jean-Paul Sartre, who according to Simone de Beauvoir “would amuse...”
– How to Own a Bike, Bill Strickland. Bicycling magazine
Today Is Auschwitz Liberation Day
nwkarchivist:
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to...”
– John Updike (via aaknopf)
Always and forever.
(via rachelfershleiser)
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